Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the performance, Carter occasionally entertained the audience with bits of humor. After announcing that the song he was to play, "Summer Serenade," had just been recorded by another musician, Carter remarked, "At a few cents an album, that's always good news...
...Because once upon a time spring was fun. After graduation I figure it will be fun once again. But in college, April--face it, May isn't spring, it's examination season--has to serve as both spring and summer for students, who disperse after finals to spend unreal summers with unreal companions...
...University's support staff. The timing of the election--May 17--is a major victory for HUCTW. A post-graduation election date was widely regarded as a disadvantage to the union because the 30 percent of the work force who leave their posts each year do so in the summer...
...teenage ruler was obliged to take a crash course in statesmanship, traveling to Beijing to negotiate with Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. Finally, in March 1959, when a bloody confrontation seemed imminent as 30,000 steadfast Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his summer palace dressed as a humble soldier and set off across the highest mountains on earth. Two weeks later, suffering from dysentery and on the back of a dzo, a hybrid yak, the "Holder of the White Lotus" rode into exile in India...
...June Sunday dawns at Doug and Audrey Graves' summer house, which sits on choice island property that has been in Doug's family for three generations. Doug, 54, is spending the weekend at this retreat, away from the city where he desultorily practices law and enthusiastically philanders. Audrey, 51, ensconced for the season and steadily tippling vodka in the privacy of her own bedroom, feels a bit edgy over the arrival, a week earlier, of their unprepossessing son Bobby and the stranger he introduces as his new wife. Audrey wonders whether Lydia, nee Di Salvo, the daughter of a prosperous...